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...Colonial Day this same rousing theme was taken as a text by Dictator Mussolini, at Rome, where he proceeded to bestow a coveted medal on the corps flag of the Italian Colonial Air Force. In ringing tones Il Duce declared that during the four-month period of hottest fighting in the two African colonies, last winter, 4000 war flights were made, 100,000 rounds of ammunition fired, and 400,000 pounds of explosives were dropped upon native tribes foolish enough to resist the Italian colonizers...
Having thus clarioned to the nation's colonial conscience, Signer Mussolini pinned a bronze medal on Air Corps Flag Bearer Colonel Mario Stangani. Hugging and kissing the Colonel on both cheeks, Il Duce cried: "I embrace in you the whole Italian Colonial Aviation Service...
...While Il Duce was embracing and triumphing at Rome, last week, there was left to King Vittorio Emanuele III?who has just returned from a state visit to Tripolitania and Cyrenaica?merely the cold, staid duty of honoring at Turin the late Emanuele Filberto, Duke of Savoy, born in 1528. All that could pertinently be said about Duke Filberto was compressed into a trenchant oration by famed Senator Sem Benelli, author of The Jest, a grewsome play which Actor John Barrymore made a hit-show in the U. S. some years...
When months are cold, placid Donna Rachele Mussolini dwells with her children in Milan; but with approaching spring she moves out to the Mussolini estate at Forli, where, each summer, Il Duce indulges in a brief fit of farm labor which he calls "fighting the battle of the grain." At such times, and during the Christmas and Easter visits of Signor Mussolini to Milan, it is possible that he is persuaded, cajoled, nagged. But he is only known to have yielded once. On this occasion-just prior to the birth of Babe Romano-Donna Mussolini begged and received a decree...
Naturally the climax of Correspondent James' dash to Rome came when he was ushered into the enormous, high ceilinged office of Signor Mussolini in the Palazzo Chigi. Soon Il Duce consented to discuss a subject at which most men shy, the prospect of his own death. Said he: "I am here today and gone tomorrow; but let no one think Fascism goes with me. . . . I do not know how long Mussolini will last, but Fascism shall last longer. ... I will leave to Italy the institution of Fascism established on solid grounds-an historic institution. . . . The youth of Italy shall...